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... principal food of the people in parts remote from Sydney , as the transport of grain to great distances en- hances its price . There are also large tracts of land which are too wet for sheep , but afford good pasture for cattle . The ...
... principal food of the people in parts remote from Sydney , as the transport of grain to great distances en- hances its price . There are also large tracts of land which are too wet for sheep , but afford good pasture for cattle . The ...
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... principal Ionic order , which is 284 feet high , there is a second one ( 17 high ) of colossal Caryatides , representing Valkyriæ , the female genii in Scandinavian mythology , whose office it was to welcome the souls of the blessed ...
... principal Ionic order , which is 284 feet high , there is a second one ( 17 high ) of colossal Caryatides , representing Valkyriæ , the female genii in Scandinavian mythology , whose office it was to welcome the souls of the blessed ...
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... principal King at Arms at that period . ' " • The common biographical accounts attribute to Sir Edward Walker a work on tactics , entitled Military Dis- coveries , ' published in folio , in 1705 ; and also the follow- ing works , which ...
... principal King at Arms at that period . ' " • The common biographical accounts attribute to Sir Edward Walker a work on tactics , entitled Military Dis- coveries , ' published in folio , in 1705 ; and also the follow- ing works , which ...
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... principal person employed in the attempts to cap- ture him appears , from a paper in Ryley , to have been Ralph de Haliburton ; but how he was actually taken is not known . Sir John Menteith ( a son of Walter Stewart , earl of Menteith ) ...
... principal person employed in the attempts to cap- ture him appears , from a paper in Ryley , to have been Ralph de Haliburton ; but how he was actually taken is not known . Sir John Menteith ( a son of Walter Stewart , earl of Menteith ) ...
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... principal are - 1 , the Syll or Shyl , in the west ; its sources are in Transylvania , but it soon leaves this country by a long and narrow defile called the Valkan Pass , where it enters Wallachia ; it joins the Danube opposite the ...
... principal are - 1 , the Syll or Shyl , in the west ; its sources are in Transylvania , but it soon leaves this country by a long and narrow defile called the Valkan Pass , where it enters Wallachia ; it joins the Danube opposite the ...
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Seite 104 - His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble ; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. Although in the circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words.
Seite 104 - ... through the birth of a government, new in its forms and principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly tr.iin ; and of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example.
Seite 231 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the...
Seite 236 - West has conquered — he has treated his subject as it ought to be treated — I retract my objections. I foresee that this picture will not only become one of the most popular, but will occasion a revolution in art.
Seite 104 - His heart was not warm in its affections; but he exactly calculated every man's value, and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it. His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback.
Seite 62 - The Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation ;" which being attacked by several opponents, he published a " Vindication
Seite 246 - March 9, they came to this resolution, " that the legislative and judicial power of bishops in the house of peers, is a great hinderance to the discharge of their spiritual function, prejudicial to the commonwealth, and fit to be taken away by bill ; and that a bill be drawn up to this purpose.
Seite 104 - ... war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best ; and certainly no General ever planned his battles more judiciously. But if deranged during the course of the action, if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden circumstances, he was slow in a re-adjustment. The consequence was, that he often failed in the field, and rarely against an enemy in station, as at Boston and York. He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern.
Seite 232 - Here are, allow me to say, both the purity, the strength, and the elegance of the English language; and, at the same time, the utmost simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity.
Seite 140 - We have said that Mr. Watt was the great Improver of the steamengine ; but, in truth, as to all that is admirable in its structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its Inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable...